"The subject must have been an extensive one." "Well, I mean all my views about society, and such things," said Marie.
"The text was, 'He hath made everything beautiful in its season;' and he showed how all the orders and distinctions in society came from God; and that it was so appropriate, you know, and beautiful, that some should be high and some low, and that some were born to rule and some to serve, and all that, you know; and he applied it so well to all this ridiculous fuss that is made about slavery, and he proved distinctly that the Bible was on our side, and supported all our institutions so convincingly.

I only wish you'd heard him." "O, I didn't need it," said St.Clare.

"I can learn what does me as much good as that from the Picayune, any time, and smoke a cigar besides; which I can't do, you know, in a church." "Why," said Miss Ophelia, "don't you believe in these views ?" "Who,--I?
You know I'm such a graceless dog that these religious aspects of such subjects don't edify me much.

If I was to say anything on this slavery matter, I would say out, fair and square, 'We're in for it; we've got 'em, and mean to keep 'em,--it's for our convenience and our interest;' for that's the long and short of it,--that's just the whole of what all this sanctified stuff amounts to, after all; and I think that it will be intelligible to everybody, everywhere." "I do think, Augustine, you are so irreverent!" said Marie.

"I think it's shocking to hear you talk." "Shocking! it's the truth.